Teena Rochfort-Smith
| Teena Rochfort-Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mary Lilian Rochfort-Smith September 22, 1861 |
| Died | 4 September 1883 (aged 22) |
| Other names | Teena Rochfort Smith, Teena Smith |
| Occupation | Philologist |
Teena Rochfort-Smith was a Victorian Shakespearean scholar and philologist most notable for her contributions to the form of the scholarly edition. Her 1883 three-scene prototype of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet created a prescient solution for offering parallel views of multiple textual versions; textual scholar Ann Thompson writes of this prototype that "the sample demonstrates that, once completed, Teena Rochfort Smith's edition would have been the most complex presentation of the texts of Hamlet ever attempted".[1] This Four-Text 'Hamlet' in Parallel Columns prototype was intended to provide diplomatic transcriptions of Hamlet's first and second quartos (Q1, Q2), first folio (F1), plus Rochfort-Smith's own old-spelling edition based on Q2 but also pulling from F1.[2][3]
The texts are printed in four columns across each pair of the book's landscape-oriented open pages, two columns per page. The edition employed six varieties of typeface, four inks, three kinds of underlining, and daggers, asterisks, and other symbols call out variants and the extent of variance.[1][2][3] The prototype would have been nearly impossible to set and print given contemporary technology, and in fact Rochfort-Smith had agreed after her prototype's initial circulation among Society members to work toward a simpler final version of the edition.[1]
Rochfort-Smith produced this edition as a member of the Shakespeare Society, a London group founded by textual scholar Frederick James Furnivall in 1873. The Society published a number of editions created by attendees of its monthly meetings at University College;[4] Rochfort-Smith joined the group on October 14, 1881.[5] Her early death at the age of 22 prevented her ambitious editorial project from becoming fully realized.
References
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Sources
Murphy, Andrew. "Electric Shakespeares, The Arden Shakespeare CD ROM". Computers and the Humanities 32.5 (1998): 411-420.
Thompson, Ann. "Teena Rochfort Smith, Frederick Furnivall, and the New Shakspere Society's Four-Text Edition of Hamlet". Shakespeare Quarterly 49.2 (Summer 1998): 125-139. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2902297.
External links
- Digital images of the Folger Shakespeare Library's copy of "A four-text edition of Shakspere’s Hamlet"
- Internet Archives copy of "Teena Rochfort-Smith. A memoir with three Woodbury-types of her (1883)"
- The Folger Shakespeare Library's record for Frederick James Furnivall's Teena Rochfort-Smith. A memoir with three Woodbury-types of her, one each of Robert Browning and F. J. Furnivall and memorial lines by Mary Grace Walker.
- The Folger Shakespeare Library's record for Teena Rochfort-Smith's A four-text edition of Shakspere’s Hamlet : 1. quarto 1, 1603 -- 2. quarto 2, 1604 -- 3. folio 1, 1623 -- 4. a revized text : in parallel columns / edited by Teena Rochfort Smith.
- The Folger Shakespeare Library's record for Teena Rochfort-Smith's The number of lines in Shakspere’s works ...